Tesla Partner Panasonic Sees Car Roofs As New Market For Solar

Tesla’s partner, Panasonic, wants to change the roof on your car. How? According to a report from Bloomberg yesterday, “Panasonic Corp. sees the future of solar on car rooftops. The Osaka-based electronics maker has started producing a 180-watt array of solar cells that can be fixed to the roof of an automobile.” Panasonic’s Shingo Okamoto explains, “Car roofs have the potential to become a new market for solar panels. We made history in the auto industry and in the solar industry with the sun powering mass-produced cars for the first time in the world.”